Visitor from a parallel social app with an alternate timeline. I write novels featuring music & time travel. https://linktr.ee/JLCivihttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3musp76vbqk2q#TimeTravelAuthors Day 5: grow Swirling visions spawn more bad lyrics: Sweaty tingles, surging organs, sacred oaths. Lists and words and glances, suspicious undergrowths. Nameless smiles, smiles nod, nodding smiles smilin’ Gods. Guests are guesses guesting people, greeting people what a fraud!06 Sep 2026 00:07 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3musp76vbqk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3munvod3owk2u#TimeTravelAuthors D3: Time Passing Time travel in Timely Persuasion spans 1969-2001, but only a few weeks pass in the present of 2002. Local Boy Done Gone spans 1969-2001 in “real time” with multiple time travelers briefly popping in from 2015ish. (Audiobook took 7 years— but worth the wait!)04 Sep 2026 02:20 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3munvod3owk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mufg4swvi22uSchrödinger’s Catch: A ball inside a fielder’s glove simultaneously is and isn’t an out until observed by instant replay.31 Aug 2026 17:20 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufg4swvi22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mufehkpml22d#TimeTravelAuthors Day 31: promo Have an Audible credit to burn? Or a hankering for an Audible free trial? Listen to my words read (and/or sung!!!) in multiple voices by the great Brian Ibbott from the Coverville podcast. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0HBFVSG7W/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-522229&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_522229_rh_us31 Aug 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufehkpml22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3muacjpe5522w#TimeTravelAuthors Day 29: “craft” Plink, plink, plink. Dink, dink, dink. A leaky craft may sink, sink, sink. A melodic, metallic tapping sound woke me. Despite my dumb dirge of a ditty and some down and up motion, I wasn’t on a boat.29 Aug 2026 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3muacjpe5522whttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mtoqskr67c2yFound out my 6 year old dog has cancer, which got Shawn Smith’s haunting cover of “Heart-Shaped Box” stuck in my head on repeat. “I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black…” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNx0Irbans8&ra=m22 Aug 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoqskr67c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mt7vnxi2bs2bAnd it was all yellow… Wordle 1,884 6/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩16 Aug 2026 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt7vnxi2bs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3msxuk65a2k2x#TimeTravelAuthors Day 13: Time Travel Advice A time traveler writes this advice in a copy of related sequel/prequel Timely Persuasion given to a character by another time traveler. Paperback uses a real handwriting font made with calligraphr.com13 Aug 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxuk65a2k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mswo6d4q2k2gOf course I had to try this based on the name / label. Pretty good.13 Aug 2026 03:09 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswo6d4q2k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3msen7bnq622r#TimeTravelAuthors Day 5: bitter (out of context bit where @coverville.com ‘s audio narration gave me chills…) “…jaundiced to glowing to angels to suspicious to rainbow to stormy to gypsy to apple to always black to boar hogs to anisocoric to smiling sorrow to Cuban skies to eleven to bitter…”05 Aug 2026 23:04 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3msen7bnq622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3msa2anexok2m#TimeTravelAuthors Local Boy is from/lives in 1969-1977 when he starts getting visits from circa 2015ish time travelers. “Where” isn’t specifically revealed, but it’s within 50 miles of real life DJ Maxanne Sartori’s station which narrows it down when she starts spinning “Won One”04 Aug 2026 03:14 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3msa2anexok2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3ms7v5rjeg226Via @theathletic.com MLB trade deadline recap…04 Aug 2026 01:43 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7v5rjeg226https://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3ms2cppvjws26Love what looks like yellow matter custard dripping from the leftmost eye… [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Aug 2026 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms2cppvjws26https://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mrq5leefxc2wAmazon/Audible went live last night, so now I can officially say “available wherever you get your audiobooks…” https://www.audible.com/pd/Local-Boy-Done-Gone-Audiobook/B0HBFVSG7W28 Jul 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrq5leefxc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mrdy3kquf22c#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23: Tip for writing time travel Remember: You have a time machine which (sometimes) gives you all the time in the world! Wish you wrote a scene differently? Go back and fix it. OR—leave both versions in and embrace the do-over like Marty.23 Jul 2026 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdy3kquf22chttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mrdxmf45nk2cShameless plug: The Local Boy Done Gone audiobook is live on Spotify/Apple/Chirp, with Audible/Amazon to soon follow! Narrated by Brian Ibbott from @coverville.com (which still makes me grin every time I write it down…) Teaser trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B_DhIYRxSXQ #TimeTravelAuthors23 Jul 2026 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdxmf45nk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mqaydyeyu22o#TimeTravelAuthors D9: Lie a character believes about themselves An old man visits Timely Persuasion’s narrator, claiming to be his future self. Local Boy Done Gone’s narrator (Dad of the above) is visited by the same old man claiming to be HIS future self. Whose future self is he?10 Jul 2026 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqaydyeyu22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mpumdf4phs2zFourth of July always makes me revisit the #QuantumLeap spec script I wrote in college, set on July 3-4, 1976.05 Jul 2026 03:15 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpumdf4phs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3moygp55z5c2q#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23: Words/phrases Oddly, I think I’ve sold more t-shirts with Local Boy’s catchphrase than books! jlcjlc.bigcartel.com23 Jun 2026 22:20 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3moygp55z5c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3motaynyfkk22#TimeTravelAuthors Day 21: parents Timely Persuasion’s narrator has a BTTF-ish “meet your parents as teenagers + make sure they fall in love” experience. Done Gone follows the father before he had kids but knowing he needs to, with a running gag keeping the grandparents perpetually overseas.21 Jun 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3motaynyfkk22https://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mojrh7xajk22#TimeTravelAuthors Day 17: glimmer/shine (I’m mashing the words together and using “shimmer” today) She used her left hand to show me off, raindrops shimmering on her shirt like the gown of a game show hostess.18 Jun 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mojrh7xajk22https://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mo7wug2v7k2k#TimeTravelAuthors Day 13: excerpt with rich/poor (Only “rich” was a Little Richard name drop, so I’ll go with poor…) She held my face between her hands, forcing my no into a nod while silencing my poorly thought through follow-up with a kiss.14 Jun 2026 04:33 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo7wug2v7k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mnzq56touc2l#TimeTravelAuthors Day 11: Robots, non-humans, etc Local Boy watches a lot of Scooby-Doo with his cousin. They recap the gang’s encounters with a ghost, an ape man, a robot, and a clown…plus the robotic dog Dynomutt who shared top billing with Scooby in the mid-1970s.11 Jun 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzq56touc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mmymqoepf224#TimeTravelAuthors Day 29: Weird Comps @autocrit.bsky.social called Local Boy Done Gone “like a fictionalized Miles Davis/Keith Richards memoir.”29 May 2026 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmymqoepf224https://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mmfzmfb4dk2f#TimeTravelAuthors Day 21: meeting relatives In Timely Persuasion, time travelers are ghostly entities who can observe but not interact with anyone except their past self or blood relatives. Meeting relatives is the only way to enact change.22 May 2026 03:47 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmfzmfb4dk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mmauqfdbvk27#TimeTravelAuthors Day 19: Does this count as ORGANized? The organ kicked up as the march kicked off from the vestibule at the back of the church. Both the pastor and my older self shushed me, and rightfully so. Botching this wedding at the wire wouldn’t do anyone any good.20 May 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmauqfdbvk27https://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mjajtuvaks2w#TimeTravelAuthors Day 11 “point” (a Billy Joel song from the future is played at an open mic night in 1969) My favorite was an extended number told from the viewpoint of a psychic arsonist justifying his crimes by predicting worldly events.11 Apr 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjajtuvaks2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jlcivi.com/post/3mhszm4ziv22a#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23: Something that surprised you about your story. Local Boy Done Gone was supposed to be a retelling of Timely Persuasion through a different character’s eyes. That lasted exactly one chapter until a familiar time traveler showed up to change things. #Pantsing24 Mar 2026 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:vfx3a25ltscp7637ulzxflpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhszm4ziv22a